Barbados, sentence 185
From Wikipedia, «Barbados», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Barbados is host to four species of nesting turtles (green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbill turtles, and leatherbacks) and has the second-largest hawksbill turtle-breeding population in the Caribbean.
What happens: be, nest, have, breed · To what, where: Barbados host, second largest hawksbill breeding population, Caribbean
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Barbados». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbados | barbados | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 host | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 host | cop |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 species | case |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 species | nummod |
| 6 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 host | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 turtles | case |
| 8 | nesting | nest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 turtles | amod |
| 9 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 species | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 turtles | punct |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turtles | amod |
| 12 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turtles | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loggerheads | punct |
| 14 | loggerheads | loggerhead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turtles | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turtles | punct |
| 16 | hawksbill | hawksbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turtles | compound |
| 17 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turtles | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leatherbacks | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leatherbacks | cc |
| 20 | leatherbacks | leatherback | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 host | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 leatherbacks | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 has | cc |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 host | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 population | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 population | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 second | punct |
| 27 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 population | amod |
| 28 | hawksbill | hawksbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 population | compound |
| 29 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 breeding | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 turtle | punct |
| 31 | breeding | breed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 population | amod |
| 32 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Caribbean | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Caribbean | det |
| 35 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 population | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Barbados host | to four species of nesting turtles; leatherbacks appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nest | gerund | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | the second largest hawksbill breeding population | the Caribbean | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | ||||
| 4 | breed | gerund | turtle compound | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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